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Russian gas tanker Arctic Metagaz on fire near Malta, doing a passable imitation of a sunset. It's widely suspected to be the work of Ukrainian artists as part of a continued installation called "Russian warship go fuck yourself". The crew is reportedly accounted for and has been rescued by the Maltese authorities.

Olafur Eliasson's The Weather Project at the Tate. A giant orange sun hangs over the Turbine Hall.

Who did it better?

Ukraine War Latest: Ukrainian forces liberate 9 eastern settlements as Russian troops face Starlink disruptions * Ukrainian forces liberate 9 eastern settlements as Russian troops face Starlink disruptions, Ukraine's military says * As Ukrainian regions start preparing for next winter, Kyiv lags behind * Zele...

Ukrainian forces liberate 9 eastern settlements as Russian troops face Starlink disruptions; As Ukrainian regions start preparing for next winter, Kyiv lags behind; Zelensky floats swapping Patriot missiles for interceptor drones amid increased Iranian Shahed threat; and more.

🔴 Russian LNG tanker Arctic Metagaz reportedly on fire in Mediterranean, Reuters reports.

The vessel, which is currently under both U.S. and UK sanctions, was last spotted off the coast of Malta on March 2, according to MarineTraffic data.

Women reflect on safety five years after Sarah Everard's murder Five years after Sarah Everard was murdered, women continue to change their behaviour to stay safe.

#BBCNews - Women reflect on safety five years after Sarah Everard's murder
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The women interviewed by BBC London said male violence against them posed a persistent threat - with little, if anything, having changed to improve women's safety in public spaces.
#SarahEverard

May 2026 elections: Weekend voting to be piloted in the UK Findings from the experiment will be published later this year and inform future electoral reform.

Reinventing the wheel
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German Chancellor Merz after meeting Trump:

The Russian giant today stands on feet of clay.

And that is why we want to come to solutions here, but also solutions that involve the Europeans.

Bonhoeffer on wisdom: 👀

"Knowledge of reality is not just knowing external events, but seeing into the essence of things.

The best-informed person is not the most intelligent.

Precisely the best-informed people are in danger of missing the essential amid the variety." (Ethics, 29)

Trump says Starmer is 'no Winston Churchill' over Iran strikes Sir Keir Starmer had refused to grant the US permission to use the Diego Garcia military base.

This is not Theodore Roosevelt we're dealing with
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Firm Tied to Kristi Noem Secretly Got Money From $220 Million DHS Ad Contracts The company is run by the husband of Noem’s chief DHS spokesperson and has personal and business ties to Noem and her aides. DHS invoked the “emergency” at the border to skirt competitive bidding rule...

DHS invoked the “national emergency” at the border to skirt competitive bidding rules for a $220 million taxpayer-funded ad campaign, which has secretly benefited a firm with ties to Kristi Noem.

(Published Nov. 2025)

After the pensioner refused at Beecher’s Brook?

We're a few errant Iranian drones away from flights being forced to divert around the Cape of Good Hope.

Volgograd, Russia 💥💥💥

“The Russian LNG tanker Arctic Metagaz, which belongs to Russia's shadow fleet, is on fire in the Mediterranean Sea near Libya.“

If anyone is friends with any Georgian air traffic controllers, buy them a nice bottle of wine. As guardians of pretty much the only narrow gap still available between Europe and Asia that avoids both Iran, the Gulf, Ukraine and Russia, they are under some substantial pressure.

Who could have foreseen that a massive aerial bombardment of a country with a huge stock of drones might lead to airspace being closed?

Tracking our *negative* voting intention (who would Britons vote AGAINST):

➡️ Ref 38% (+9)
🌹Lab 34% (-4)
🌳 Con 7% (-1)
🌏 Green 7% (+4)
🐦‍ LD 3% (-)
changes w/ Nov 2025

As Reform has plateaued in the polls, the number of people saying they would also vote *against* Reform has grown

“Apparently surprisingly few locals have espresso’d interest in working for them”

National Employment Office, Brussels. 1959 by Yvan and Françoise Blomme. If there's an opposite of fun architecture, this is probably it.

A peculiarly Brussels vision of modernism. 1941 HQ for the association of Belgian millers. By Yvan Blomme in the same blue-stone, yellow-brick aesthetic he and his father deployed for Gare du Midi.

This is also how he treats women.

Think it's fair to say the Stena tanker fleet have not been lucky ships recently.

(Stena Immaculate, incinerated off the Humber last year, was a sister ship)

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told lawmakers she had no knowledge of the crimes committed by Jeffrey Epstein or his longtime associate Ghislaine Maxwell as she sat for a deposition last Th... TikTok video by C-SPAN

Well, you can see why the GOP was afraid to depose Hillary Clinton in public www.tiktok.com/t/ZTh7rGJFa/

Iranian strikes on Amazon data centers highlight industry's vulnerability to physical disasters Iranian drone strikes damaged three Amazon Web Services sites in the Middle East, exposing how vulnerable cloud data centers are in conflict.

(AP) — Damage to three Amazon Web Services facilities in the Middle East from Iranian drone strikes highlights the rapid growth of data centers in the region, as well as the industry's vulnerability to conflict. apnews.com/article/amazon-aws...

The international situation which Starmer inherited was and is horrendous

Telegraph declines to tell regulator how fake banker story got published The Telegraph has refused to tell IPSO how an article about a made-up banker supposedly hit by school fee rises came to be published.

Extraordinary that the Telegraph is refusing to tell Ipso how its story about imaginary couple Al and Alexandra Moy and their non-existent children Ali, Harry and Barry got published.

Veteran silk Robert Venables KC denies tax evasion charges.

Venables famously threatened to “set the dogs” on anti-tax-avoidance campaigners and called them “trespassing scum” at the Golden Handshake awards in Oxford in 2012. A trial is due later this year.

www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/veteran...

The @ipso.co.uk ruling of Telegraph’s preposterous “We earn £345k but soaring private school fees mean we can’t go on five holidays”, reveals the article to have been a fabrication. There is no such family as Al, Alexandra, Ali, Harry and Barry Moy. Glad to have acted as lead complainant on this.

Congratulations to Ian on the success of his complaint against the Telegraph

Nigel Farage is off to the USA to do a speech to a US think tank this weekend.

No visit to Clacton, cares more about Republicans than British people.